Collection of 37 story texts, "gwènùxó," told by 15 performers in three villages of southern Benin, transcribed from recordings made April-June 1976
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Benin: history, religion and verbal artCollecting the corpusThe verbal art of the Fon: the performance witnessedElements of Fongbe storiesTopics: power and violationsThe genreThe tools of the performersRemarks abou the transcription and the translation
The Ayou stories.Hunter Little Finger and the King (Ayou 1)How Yeh deceived Great Spirit Dada Sehgbo (Ayou 2)How Yoh was thrown out of the Land of Sky (Ayou 3)How Yeh escaped from the market of the ancestors (Ayou 4)The cat and the leopard (Ayou 5)The rooster and the elephant (Ayou 6)How Yeh deceived the leopard and the termites (Ayou 7)How Yoh deceived them all (Ayou 8)
The Abomey-Calavi stories.The hunger's wife (Abomey-Calavi 1)The sadist co-wife (Abomey-Calavi 2)Two heartless brothers (Abomey-Calavi 3)The day to thresh the millet (Abomey-Calavi 4)Two friends (Abomey-Calavi 5)Rather friendship than power (Abomey-Calavi 6)The ruthless husband (Abomey-Calavi 7)The looser [loser] (Abomey-Calavi 8)The adulterous king's wife (Abomey-Calavi 9)The horny king (Abomey-Calavi 10)The upstart hunter (Abomey-Calavi 11)The insane co-wife (Abomey-Calavi 12)The madman at the courtyard of the royal palace (Abomey-Calavi 13)The malevolent co-wife (Abomey-Calavi 14)The ill-natured first-born daughter (Abomey-Calavi 15)The leopard and the cat (Abomey-Calavi 16)The origin of the lunar eclipse and the creation of fish (Abomey-Calavi 17)As you sow so shall you reap (Abomey-Calavi 18)A matter of life and death (Abomey-Calavi 19)
The Abomey stories.Two women friends (Abomey 1)The indiscreet hunter (Abomey 2)The vicious farmer (Abomey 3)The day to thresh the millet (Abomey 4)The sadist co-wife (Abomey 5)The lion and the hyena (Abomey 6)The cat and the leopard (Abomey 7)The adulterous wife (Abomey 8)Who is important? (Abomey 9)How Yoh was up to his tricks again, or so he thought (Abomey 10).